'They wanted money'

Michael Crant's parents, Ivan and Daphne Crant, have already testified at provincial court about a frightening ordeal on Feb. 8, 2017, when three masked men barged into their property, tied them up and robbed them.

Their son told the court that earlier in the day, his former "good friend," Mitchell Nippard, and Gary Hennessey were in the family's shed along with other friends.

He said the pair left about half an hour to an hour before the masked intrusion began — a point Crant had previously excluded from his two police statements last February.

The masked intruders entered the shed and ordered the men to lie face down on the floor. They bound their wrists with plastic ties and covered their mouths with tape, Crant said.

"They beat me a couple times with the pistol," Crant said, adding he was bleeding from the crown of his head.

Moving right along, Michael Crant’s girlfriend testifying now via video. She says masked men came in bedroom with Crant. “There was blood coming from Mike’s head,” she says and a gun was pointed at his chest. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cbcnl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cbcnl</a>